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On Tuesday WikiLeaks began releasing a series of encrypted documents dubbed “Vault 7,” detailing the surveillance activities of the CIA.

As part of the release, the organization posted to Twitter a password for “Vault 7” that read as follows: “SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheW inds.”

That password was a subset of words spoken by President John F. Kennedy 54 years ago, only a month before he was assassinated:

“I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind,” were his exact words, according to a Kennedy administration official who spoke with The New York Times for a report published three years after JFK’s death.

Speaking in a History Channel program several years ago, Samuel Halpern, author of “The Assassination of JFK,” claimed that the threat stemmed from Kennedy’s frustration with the CIA, which he believed was becoming a “state within a state.”

Actually, you can't. Whether they HAVE or not, we know for a fact they have the capability. We also know they have been using it without warrants. Completely unconstitutional.

This is in no way related to the original topic of this thread though. This thread was about Apple helping crack their encryption. The tools we're discussing here were made for spying.

Honestly, I thought we knew this already. I mean, look at the safeguards taken for secure spaces containing classified info. No phones allowed, No wifi devices, no Bluetooth, No smartwatches, no NFC, no iPods, tablets, etc. It's not a production thing, it's because we know hackers (and the CIA obviously) have the ability to listen to your phone's microphone even when you're not using it, or open your camera, etc.

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Actually, you can't. Whether they HAVE or not, we know for a fact they have the capability. We also know they have been using it without warrants. Completely unconstitutional.

This is in no way related to the original topic of this thread though. This thread was about Apple helping crack their encryption. The tools we're discussing here were made for spying.

Honestly, I thought we knew this already. I mean, look at the safeguards taken for secure spaces containing classified info. No phones allowed, No wifi devices, no Bluetooth, No smartwatches, no NFC, no iPods, tablets, etc. It's not a production thing, it's because we know hackers (and the CIA obviously) have the ability to listen to your phone's microphone even when you're not using it, or open your camera, etc.

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Actually, you can't. Whether they HAVE or not, we know for a fact they have the capability. We also know they have been using it without warrants. Completely unconstitutional.

This is in no way related to the original topic of this thread though. This thread was about Apple helping crack their encryption. The tools we're discussing here were made for spying.

Honestly, I thought we knew this already. I mean, look at the safeguards taken for secure spaces containing classified info. No phones allowed, No wifi devices, no Bluetooth, No smartwatches, no NFC, no iPods, tablets, etc. It's not a production thing, it's because we know hackers (and the CIA obviously) have the ability to listen to your phone's microphone even when you're not using it, or open your camera, etc.

This new leak pertains to apple because they have been proven right. Government cant keep all its backdoor surveillance and malware safe.